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Forest is an app to help you reclaim your time and stay in the present.
https://www.thenational.ae/business/review-forest-app-lets-you-grow-your-time-management-skills-1.15814
https://www.thenational.ae/business/review-forest-app-lets-you-grow-your-time-management-skills-1.15814
One of the worst habits for destroying concentration and ruining quality time is constantly checking your smartphone – whether to play games, look at social media or stay up to date with endless group WhatsApp threads.
Forest is an app to help you reclaim that time and stay in the present. While it’s simple enough to work for children doing their homework and teenagers studying for their exams, it’s also an incredibly effective alternative to the Pomodoro Technique (a time management method) for adults too – especially if you have any kind of emotional attachment to nature.
The app is free on Android or £1.99 (Dh9) on iOS; it also comes as a browser for Chrome and Firefox. Once you’ve downloaded it to your phone, you just have to open it up whenever you want to focus on real life.
Set how long you want this session to last, touch the “plant” button, and you’ll see a countdown timer start ticking, beneath a cartoon picture of a small seedling. From then on it’s simple. Simply ignore your phone to allow the seedling to grow into a tree. Each completed session will add another plant to your long-term “forest”, and you can compete with friends or colleagues by sharing your forests with each other.
If you open your phone to check the growth of your seedling, you’ll see messages like “go back to your work” and “don’t look at me.” If you exit the app to check messages or use other apps, the plant will die. As well as tracking your progress by seeing how your forest is doing, you can also check the metrics to see if your self-control is improving.
While it might seem a little childish, I was surprised how much this visual representation of success helped to motivate me to stick to my non-phone time and focus on what I was doing. While some users have said they’d prefer to be rewarded for refraining from checking their phone without having to set up a session in advance, I disagree. Deciding on a focused hour and taking a break once the session is complete really helped me regain control.
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Cut your phone dependence with an app that plants trees as a reward
Ephrat Livni
You can’t help it. You check your phone constantly, forever sneaking a peak, seeking distraction, and the more you do it, the more distracted you become. Don’t feel bad—it’s a common problem that can be solved with the help of technology.
Use your your phone to cultivate the focus it erodes by downloading an app designed to curb tech dependence and reward the environment for your presence. Published by Shaokan Pi, a Chinese app maker, Forest users grow a virtual forest by not fiddling with their phones during designated times they set, and thus earn virtual currency to purchase real trees.
How Forest works.
Forest
Check Facebook and your tree dies.
Forest is ranked among the top five productivity apps on Apple’s App Store in 85 countries, according to Sensor Tower. User reviews are generally enthusiastic, calling it “a godsend” and claiming it results in “a sharp increase in productivity.” One 3-star review, however, noted that it’s a “cool idea” but growing a virtual garden made the user anxious about the death of his fake trees when he failed to concentrate.
More commonly, Forest gets five star reviews from users. For example, someone going by the handle “umbrr” on Oct. 24 asked, “Who knew that the key to being productive was to incentivize time well spent with a garden of digital trees?” An Oct. 25 App Store review from Savannah Mary, was similarly positive, exclaiming:
I needed Forest so badly and I never realized it until I got it. This app helps me stay present and focused better than any other app or productivity tool I’ve ever used! Truly a gift! And the social responsibly aspect—planting trees, REAL trees! Couldn’t get any better.
The Forest app.
These real trees are planted through Maryland nonprofit Trees for the Future. The organization works with farming families in five African countries—Senegal, Cameroon, Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda—on reforestation and commercial cultivation training.
John Leary, the organization’s executive director, spoke to Quartz about the collaboration with Forest and the people who are planting the trees in Africa through his program. Forest first came out in China in 2014 and proved popular. Two years later, ahead of release in the US and elsewhere, the app maker sought an international partner that could efficiently and sustainably plant many trees, showing users real-life results to inspire and motivate them.
Trees for the Future does that. Families who graduate from the four-year training program in African countries earn four times more annually than before their training in crop diversification and reforestation. Over the 15 years from when the first pilot began in Senegal, the program has proven that its growers have more and better food, all while preventing soil depletion and over-farming of common cash- crops.
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7 Ways to Build a Strong Network
Barry Moltz americanexpress
It's well known that networking is the key to a successful career. You can have the skills and the education, but without connections, it will be very difficult to get a job or even build a business. A recent study by Right Management found that for the fifth year in a row, person-to-person networking is the most effective way of finding a new job. Networking had a 46 percent effectiveness rate, compared to Internet job boards (25 percent), recruiters (14 percent), the direct approach (7 percent) and newspaper listings (1 percent).
A lot of people have trouble with networking because they are introverted, feel like they are using people and come off as selfish instead of helpful. Here are seven tips that will help you, even if you're not a natural schmoozer.
1. Focus on the right people.
The secret to networking isn't to attend a networking event and pass out as many business cards as you can. It's not meeting as many people as possible in hopes something will work out. Instead, you need to concentrate on the people who you know will be able to make a difference in your career.
2. Create win/win situations.
It's very important that both you and the other party gain equally when networking. If you benefit more than the other person, he or she will feel cheated and used. When that happens, you won't be able to go back and built a long-term relationship.
3. Give before you receive.
In a networking situations, people expect you to ask them for help. If you turn that around and just offer some support, your networking partner will be grateful and want to return the favor.
4. Become a connector.
You don't always have to gain something in a networking relationship. If you can introduce people who can benefit from one another, it's just as effective. You can build a stronger rapport with multiple people and it makes you very good.
5. Remember to reconnect.
We've all had people who will contact us out of the blue after years of never touching base. When that happens, you typically don't want to go out of your way for them because they haven't put any effort into sustaining the relationship. After you choose the right people to network with, remember to stay in contact with them.
6. Use social networks.
LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter are tools that you can use to connect in a personal way to different people in your industry. On LinkedIn for example, you can get introduced to new contacts through your current connections. You can also use LinkedIn as a professional database to find people who work in your professional at various companies you're interested in.
7. Start your own networking group.
One of the best ways to meet like-minded people is to establish your own networking group. You can use Meetup.com and EventBrite.com to create a series of events under a certain topic such as marketing, finance or accounting. By being the leader of the group, you will immediately become more connected and sought-out. People will want to meet you because you're the creator.
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